If you want to stay up to date on this project, you can sign up for the Migration Watch newsletter here.

This is the first teaser from our real-time migration tracking project, Migration Watch. We have just been awarded development funding for the project from the Dutch Creative Industries Fund, the Netherlands Film Fund and the Dutch Media Fund and a mini version of the project will be ready at the end of May.

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http://www.killingarchitects.com/we-are-looking-for/#respondWed, 16 Dec 2015 10:48:24 +0000http://www.killingarchitects.com/?p=829Following the success of last year’s Death in Venice exhibition, we are developing our work with architecture for death and dying in two ways – by bringing the exhibition to new cities (and adapting the content to the new place) and by working with hospitals, health care providers and specialist research organisations on architecture for dying (as well as health and quality of life) – and we are looking for partners to work with.

The exhibition
We are looking for museum and gallery partners who would like to bring this exhibition to their city. The work to date focuses on the UK and Netherlands, as well as the US and Canada to a certain extent, so it would make sense to tour to these places – we would be excited to expand the research to other countries and cultures (much of what we have done is relevant across Europe and North America). The exhibition in Venice focused on the UK, and in a new venue would be adapted to that new city – death is such a personal subject that it is important to show places that people are familiar with. The Venice exhibition looked at what our buildings are like now and how we got to this point; a new iteration of the exhibition would also address the future of buildings for death and dying, asking what they might be like, and at what our contemporary cultural response to death is. If you are interested in working with us, please get in touch here.

In Amsterdam we are working closely with ARCAM, to bring the exhibition to the Netherlands, but we are still looking for a venue to host it.

Designing healthcare buildings
We are looking for hospitals, health care providers and specialist research organisations to work with to think about what our healthcare buildings of the future might be like (and how we might renovate our existing ones). Alison Killing is a qualified architect (registered in the UK and the Netherlands), with experience of healthcare and hospital design and construction.

We are interested in how these buildings can be designed for greater well-being for all those who spend time there – patients, families and staff. This draws on research showing the positive impact of daylight and views of greenery on recovery times and pain perception, the redesign of patient information systems helping to reduce violence in emergency wards, for example. There are complex reasons why hospitals are designed the way they are – financial reasons, bureaucratic ones, the needs of the technology that they contain, patient and staff experience. We would like to explore how the healthcare buildings of the future can meet these essential needs, while also supporting better health outcomes. If you are interested in working with us, please get in touch here.

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http://www.killingarchitects.com/wiredthe-space-creative-fellowship/#respondSun, 20 Sep 2015 14:24:12 +0000http://www.killingarchitects.com/?p=811Alison has been selected as one of the inaugural group of WIRED/the Space Creative Innovation Fellows, with her data visualisation project, Migration Watch.

Migration Watch is a data visualisation and mapped artwork which tracks migrants’ journeys to Europe in ‘real time’ over 10 days, mapping their progress, together with the movements of other shipping vessels, currents, waves and weather, distress signals and responses to them (or lack thereof). For ethical reasons, this would be a reconstruction of past events, but it would be presented as a live event as a way of conveying the urgency and danger of the story. An accompanying media and social media campaign will reinforce the sense of a live event and bring the work to a large, broad audience. An accompanying daily podcast will explore the wider issues. It will launch in early summer 2016.

Read the interview with Alison about the Creative Fellowship and the Migration Watch project here.

The other Creative Fellows are Annette Mees, an immersive theatre director who will be creating an Almanac of the next 50 years, and Laura Kriefman, a choreographer who is creating the Mass Crane Dance.

]]>http://www.killingarchitects.com/wiredthe-space-creative-fellowship/feed/0Alison’s TED talk on death and architecturehttp://www.killingarchitects.com/alisons-ted-talk-on-death-and-architecture/
http://www.killingarchitects.com/alisons-ted-talk-on-death-and-architecture/#respondWed, 29 Apr 2015 09:27:47 +0000http://www.killingarchitects.com/?p=817The TED talk that Alison gave at TED Global 2014 in Rio de Janeiro is now online and you can watch it here.

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http://www.killingarchitects.com/the-business-of-temporary-use/#respondSun, 23 Nov 2014 11:29:38 +0000http://www.killingarchitects.com/?p=804How can we better fund, organise and commission temporary use projects for the vacant spaces in our city? These projects have so much potential to revitalise run down parts of our cities, offer opportunities to people wanting to start an arts or community project, or their own business; bring more services to local residents and make our streets more lively and attractive. But they struggle to realise this potential and the main reason is funding.

The Business of Temporary Use looks at how these projects can be better funded and organised, but also commissioned. As such, it provides a useful guide to project initiators, but also property owners, municipalities and urban designers wanting to include these projects in their strategies, about the conditions for these projects being successful – how to fund them and make good agreements between the different stakeholders. The entire book can be downloaded below.

The lecture giving an overview of the project and it’s conclusions can be found here.

This work is the follow up to 2012’s Urban Tactics, which looked more generally at what these projects needed to be successful and found that they needed high level political support, the help of an intermediary organisation and often failed because of problems with funding.

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http://www.killingarchitects.com/strategies-for-temporary-use/#commentsSun, 23 Nov 2014 10:34:28 +0000http://www.killingarchitects.com/?p=798An overview of the Business of Temporary Use project is given in this lecture – how it was done, plus the conclusions on how we can better fund, organise and commission temporary use projects for the empty spaces in our cities. It was presented at the conference ‘The Temporary Use of Urban Voids’ on 24 November 2014 in Barcelona, at the Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB)

Download the full lecture here:

]]>http://www.killingarchitects.com/strategies-for-temporary-use/feed/1The fundamentals of death – a reviewhttp://www.killingarchitects.com/the-fundamentals-of-death-a-review/
http://www.killingarchitects.com/the-fundamentals-of-death-a-review/#respondMon, 23 Jun 2014 15:38:26 +0000http://www.killingarchitects.com/?p=784A review of the Death in Venice exhibition, in the Architects’ Journal.

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http://www.killingarchitects.com/arrivano-gli-indipendenti/#respondMon, 23 Jun 2014 15:35:57 +0000http://www.killingarchitects.com/?p=781L’architetto looks at independently-organised events by young architects in Venice, including Death in Venice:

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http://www.killingarchitects.com/designing-spaces-for-a-better-death/#respondMon, 23 Jun 2014 15:29:13 +0000http://www.killingarchitects.com/?p=777Hyperallergic’s interview with Ania Molenda and Alison Killing on the Death in Venice exhibition.